Serena Williams breezes past number one Caroline Wozniacki into title match – US Open 2011
America’s favourite local tennis star, Serena Williams upset the top seeded Dane, Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets at the US Open 2011, final of the four Grand Slam events held at the Flushing Meadows Park, of Queens, New York
City, United States. She jolted down 6-2, 6-4 victory over the Dane to book her spot in the final on Saturday.
A former world number one, Williams re-created her magic of her glory days to upset Wozniacki, ranked number one in the Sony Ericsson WTA Premier rankings, and cruised into the final of this major hard court event. She required
only eighty-six minutes to overpower the current highest ranked player and proved her class.
The American made quick in-roads and after breaking Wozniacki’s serve twice, she went 5-1 up. She faced a bump in the seventh game as she gifted away her serve but quickly roared back by breaking another serve. Williams eventually
sealed the set with a 6-2 score line in forty-six minutes.
She kept momentum sailing into the final set and held her serve in the first game to take the initial lead. The twenty-eight seeded American took the first blood in the fourth game and went 4-1 up. Despite losing her edge in the
ninth game, she bounced back in the proceeding game to seal the deal by winning six games to four in forty minutes.
Overall, Williams clobbered a lower first serve share of 62 percent as compared to Dane’s 67 percent and spilled thirty-four errors. However, she covered it up by smashing thirty-four winners and hitting eleven winners.
The Dane praised the American after the match, "I was definitely trying. I never gave up. But Serena just played very, very well today.. She's in great shape, serving well, returning well, playing her hard strokes. Especially that
serve was just a killer. I don't know how many aces she made out there today, but it's not fun returning those first serves.”
Williams on the other hand became emotional and said to Mary Joe Fernandez in her on-court interview, "It has been such an arduous, long road. I just can't believe it.”
She will go on to face ninth seeded Australian Samantha Stosur who rallied past German Angelique Kerber in three sets to reach this spot.
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